Jenny Coleman is an associate professor in feminist history and Director of Academic Programmes in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. She was head of the Women's Studies Programme at Massey 2000-11 and coordinating editor of the Women's Studies Journal 2004-09. She has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century New Zealand women's history topics, and two earlier books through Otago University Press: Mad or Bad? The life and exploits of Amy Bock (2010) and Polly Plum: A firm and earnest woman's advocate - Mary Ann Colclough 1836-1885 (2017).